Richard C Atkinson s eight year tenure as president of the University of California 1995 2003 reflected the major issues facing California itself the state s emergence as the world s leading knowledge based economy and the rapidly expanding size and diversity of its population As this selection of President Atkinson s speeches and papers reveals his administration was marked by innovative approaches that deliberately shaped U C s role in this changing California These writings tell the story of the national controversy over the SAT and Atkinson s successful challenge to the dominance of the seventy five year old college entrance examination They also highlight other issues with national significance U C s experiments with race neutral admissions programs the challenges facing academic libraries and the University s pioneering activities with the California Digital Library and the University s involvement in new paradigms of industry university research Together these speeches and papers open a window on an eventful period in the history of the nation s leading public research university and the history of American higher education

The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson by Richard C. Atkinson (2007-04-26) PDF

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